If you can wiggle your toes with the mere flicker of an intention, why can't you reset your biological clock? — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Law should seek far more than mere reconciliation; it should be one of the great creative forces of our social life. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to… — Odell Shepard Copy Share Image
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Friends often think it must be fun to be a painter... When it's going well, it's far more profound than mere fun;… — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding. — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
There has been a constant struggle on the part of the military element to keep the end- fighting, or readiness to fight-superior… — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Ah, the camel of Cairo! ... He went quietly and comfortably through the narrowest lanes and the densest crowds by the mere… — Sara Jeannette Duncan Copy Share Image
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Follow your passion, we’re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles. — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence. — Matthew Syed Copy Share Image
It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort. — Alex Faickney Osborn Copy Share Image
Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image